Re:Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook
by pyre on Sunday June 26, 2016 @11:48PM
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> it's just a business that executed an existing concept very well
So is McDonald's, but I somehow think that they've managed to embed themselves into the culture/society enough that they won't soon be forgotten should they ever fall.
Re:Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook
by Teever on Monday June 27, 2016 @12:57AM
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So what can you tell me about the founders or CEOs of McDonalds?
Re:Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook
by ppopoff on Monday June 27, 2016 @02:13AM
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Seriously? How about the McDonalds, and Ray Kroc? Never heard of those names?
Re:Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook
by Majestic121 on Monday June 27, 2016 @03:55AM
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I never heard of Ray Kroc. I just asked around and not one person knew who the CEO of McDonalds is. (Ronald does not count I guess)
You're overestimating how famous this guy is.
Re:Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook
by pfranz on Monday June 27, 2016 @05:02AM
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I'd expect Ray Kroc to be at the level of a Jeopardy question. I wouldn't expect RMS to be a question. Michael Keaton is playing Ray Kroc in a film that will be released in two months.
Unless he does some remarkable philanthropy, Zuckerberg will be forgotten shortly after Tom from MySpace. Facebook isn't really fundamental to anything, it's just a business that executed an existing concept very well.
RMS may never be well known to the general public, but his reputation within his field is likely to endure in a manner similar to Euclid or Eratosthenes. GNU and the GPL are foundational elements of modern computing. Stallman had the fundamental insight that software is inherently political, then built a large part of the infrastructure necessary for humanistic software to flourish. The landscape of modern software would be utterly unrecognisable without the contributions of RMS.